"The mistress of this house, if it really hasn't appeared for ten years, then it is most likely that Mr. Butler will wind the bell in her place, so it is not surprising to me that the housekeeper knows how the door to the bell tower opens, but you are just a cook and are neither responsible for managing other people, nor in direct contact with the hostess, why are you able to enter the bell tower after Mr. Steward?"

"Since you know the secret of the double door, it means that you know the secrets of all the secret passages and mechanisms in this house, and besides, you are the person who came here 15 years ago when the Spiegel House was built, and you must know much more about this house than anyone else. So, mother-in-law, please stop denying it and tell us the truth. ”

When Yun Yeyao said this, the cook's mother-in-law's waist had already bent down, she seemed to be in pain and propped her hands on the table, and Sister Wang helped her massage her back, looking extremely worried.

After enduring and enduring, Sister Wang finally spoke: "Mr. Yun, can you please say hello after a while?" Now my mother-in-law's heart is very uncomfortable, I am afraid that something will happen to her? ”

Yun Yeyao didn't refute what Sister Wang said, he shook his head and stood up, walked to the two women across the table, Yan Muheng, who was next to him, immediately stood up together, and followed behind Yun Yeyao like a shadow, his tall body gave people a sense of intimidation, making people dare not get close to Yun Yeyao for half a step.

When the two of them passed by Liu Qiaopu, Liu Qiaopu stood up and grabbed Yan Muheng, and asked him quietly, "Are you okay when you come up?" ”

"It's good, Xiaoxiao is not injured."

"I'm asking if your little mood is okay?"

"It's the same as usual! I didn't see her particularly excited. ”

"That's good! You've got to take care of her for me, do you understand? ”

"I know, teacher, don't worry."

"Also, be careful of the old woman's physical condition, I think she is really bad, let Xiao Yao pay attention to proportion!"

"I understand that Xiao Yao is not a reckless and impulsive person, he must have a reason when he says this."

The words of the two people were almost limited to lip synching, and when Yan Muheng answered Liu Qiaopu's question, one hand was still firmly holding Yun Yeyao's hand, as if he was afraid that he would be taken away again in the next second.

Yun Yeyao's warm smile made the cook's mother-in-law feel a lot more settled, she continued: "I won't say much about the things before following An Ze to the Spiegel House, let me talk about it later, the Spiegel House was built in 1998, and the only people who came to live here at that time were me, An Ze and An Qian were three people, An Qian is An Ze's daughter, who had just graduated from elementary school when she came, that is, a teenage girl." ”

"At that time, I didn't have anything to do, and I didn't have to do kitchen work, and after Anze arrived here, he found a maid in the mountains to do the housework for us. Except for the loneliness of life, I bring some, and nothing else. ”

Yun Yeyao asked, "Mother-in-law, how old were you when you arrived at Spiegel?" ”

"Thirty-six or seventeen years old, I remember that I was 37 years old, and I just turned 36."

"What is the relationship between you and Anze?"

"I'm Ancy's governess, her stand-in, or more accurately, the manager of Spiegel."

"In other words, until Mr. Butler arrives, actually, it's your duty as a travel butler, right?"

"Yes, the maid didn't live at home at that time, and Anze and Anxi were in complete seclusion, so I took care of everything inside and out." The mother-in-law said, "Also, Anze demanded that I must declare myself to be his daughter to the outside world in order to hide Anxi's identity. ”

Between the pauses in the words, the cook overflowed a sigh from her mouth, which was a particularly deep and sad sigh, which seemed to sigh out the depression that the cook's mother-in-law had buried deep in her heart for many years.

She continued: "I don't remember what my own parents looked like, all I can remember is what I just said. For Anze, I am just a stand-in, a tool to cover his cash cow, and this cash cow is Anze's own daughter Anxi. ”

"Anze adopted me when I was not yet 20 years old, and at that time, he had just turned 40 and quit his job as a geography teacher to concentrate on his daughter's dreams. In fact, all of you have been deceived, and his so-called prophecy was not conceived by himself at all, but all came from the dreams of his own daughter. ”

"Anze is the most cruel father I have ever seen, there is no one. He drove away his wife, restricted her personal freedom, forced her to sleep and dream, and after graduating from elementary school, he never let her go to school again. And let me, a stranger, take care of his young daughter in his place. And he himself was often out and about, sometimes even not coming home for days. ”

"Even when he goes out or works, I can only sneak into the study to read for a while, and I have to be careful not to let anyone know that I have entered the study, otherwise, I will be scolded and locked in my room for reflection."

"The fire you heard about happened in April 1999, I can't remember exactly what day it was. But for me, the whole life changed in October 1998, when it was October 25th, and An Ze invited a group of craftsmen to repair and maintain the villa. After the Spiegel House was built, it was very strange that every six months, An Ze would ask workers to come and inspect all the inside and out, and these workers were all known to him. ”

"He couldn't have told me the reason why he had asked the workers to repair the house, so at the time, I really didn't know that there were so many secret rooms in this house. Every time the workers came, Anze would drive me to the side house, and October 25 was no exception. ”

"Anze seemed to be afraid that I would see something, but I was very happy for him to do so, because it was the only time I could read in my study in the open. At this time, even if An Ze finds out, he won't scold me. I remember vividly that one day, after dinner, a young worker snuck into the study, and his dirty hands were on the door, and he said to me, "You are so pretty, miss!" ”

At first, I thought he was sarcastic, because I was self-aware of my age and appearance, so I laughed at him and said, "Don't you know what it means to be pretty!" Unexpectedly, the worker didn't care, he said a few more words of praise to me, and then slipped away like a gust of wind. Before the end of the project, he would sneak to me every day to chat with me during work breaks. ”

"Gradually, I will deliberately find an excuse to wait for him in the side room at a fixed time. For me, it was like a firefly in the dark night, lighting up my heart and making me miss this emotion for the first time. As you can imagine, one is an orphan in a cage who has never enjoyed the sweetness of family or love. ”

The other is a poor migrant worker who toils every day to support himself and his family, and he doesn't feel much of the warmth of the world. Such two hearts, like two magnets, are easily attached together. ”

But how could I possibly kill him? I did it so that he could stay, so that he could live with me with peace of mind!

For this reason, I confessed my heart to Xiao Xiao countless times, hoping that he could rest assured, but he just couldn't stop the inexplicable fear. Finally, a quarrel broke out with me one day, in the study that had not yet moved to the main house. Although the way the argument was not very heated, for me, it was like an earthquake and made me realize in an instant that I had to dispose of the old guy's body in order to truly find peace.

But it was easier said than done to dispose of the corpse, and I could neither throw him in the snow and let the snow melt, nor throw him into the furnace, and the maid would find him. Thinking of the stove, a plan that shocked even myself took shape in my mind, which was to turn the whole house into a big furnace.

Of course, I'm not referring to the main house, which we will still live in and use in the future, I am referring to the side house, burning the whole side house, along with the corpse, along with all the bad things, and the demon that frightened him in his mind.

From then on, we will never go to the side house again, I think only in this way can I really calm down, and I can have a truly happy life.

I couldn't let Xiao know about it, and I had to avoid the maid's eyes, and I was brewing step by step, looking for the right opportunity. In the process, Xiao discovered the old guy's diary, and from the diary, he peeked into a bit of a secret from the past. So he asked me to go to the study for the second time to leave and talk, hoping that I could tell the truth. But what about telling the truth? Am I finally able to get back the wealth in my hand, and I want to give it to others again?

I can give all other rights to less, but I can't wealth. I know that the management of the house and the wealth are the weight of my retention, but the management of the house needs to be paid, and the wealth needs to be held tightly in the palm of my own hand, so I blamed him for being greedy because of his diary. This makes Less than look very sad. At the same time, what he didn't know was that I was also sad when I said these words.

How I wanted to be like a normal couple with him, sharing any food, but the old guy hurt me too much, I only wanted peace of mind, and I couldn't do anything less than I hoped.

Sometimes I wonder why we didn't have Mr. Housekeeper when we first came to Spiegel. If there had been Mr. Butler at that time, I would not have been imprisoned so easily by my father, I think Mr. Butler would have helped me, and even he would have ordered my father to keep me in the space I liked.

I can't remember what happened after that, because I was sick, very sick, not physically, but mentally, the kind of pain that I couldn't figure out, that I couldn't think through. I began to yearn more and more for liberation, for the darkness that didn't exist, as if there was the happy life I wanted behind it.

Mr. Butler said to me, "I am indeed sick, but this disease will not let me die, and I will gradually get better." When he said that, I always shook my head desperately, I don't want to get better, unless they tell me to leave the Spiegel House and let me go back to my old school and continue my studies, then I will really get better.

But whenever I made this request, Mr. Butler was always silent, and only at that moment would he be gloomy like a sculpture, and I could not understand what he was thinking. Sometimes when I ask in a hurry, he will say, "A lot of kids, a lot of kids are just like you, you have to think about them, you know?" ”

But I don't understand what he means at all? I don't think there are any children in this world who are the same as me, I am the most special and isolated one, why should I think about other people? So, like Mr. Butler, I'm getting more and more gloomy.

My life is like a blackboard that has been wiped clean, there will never be any waves, and no one will leave a handwriting on it, because this clean-wiped blackboard, although it is not used for a long time, is about to face the fate of abandonment......

For many years after that, I was sick and Mr. Butler stopped showing up. The two black notebooks in my hand replaced all the toys he gave me, and every day, every day, I recorded my unhappiness and life in the notebook, as well as my never-ending tears.

In such a dark and cramped space, I began to like to sleep, maybe because of illness, my brain became more and more dizzy, I looked at my bony hands, many times I imagined, what it would be like for these hands to become white bones? The fingers must be very thin, and the white tip is like the tip of a needle, and anyone who touches it will bleed.

To get back to the point, there is no doubt that in the rocky cave of the treacherous house, there is a man in his fifties who helped a middle-aged woman in the past, and the purpose of helping the middle-aged woman was to hide the secret behind his existence, there is no doubt about it. Moreover, one thing is for sure, this middle-aged woman has always been a puppet of some people in the treacherous house, and has never escaped the fate of being controlled.

She used to be Anze's puppet, and after getting rid of Anze, she became the puppet of the Hidden One. But in the life of the cook mother-in-law, many people can prove that she has been taking on the role of a kitchen maid in the treacherous house, and Sister Wang once said that since she entered the treacherous house, she and her mother-in-law have been serving the treacherous house together.

At that time, it should have been more than ten years since now, if Sister Wang hadn't lied, then in addition to age, the kitchen mother-in-law had very little resemblance to the middle-aged woman in the past.

Moreover, let's not forget that before Mr. Steward, there was also a mysterious housekeeper in the Spiegel House, who often went to the third floor to visit An Ze's real daughter, the gentle Mr. Butler, this Mr. Butler was the same age as Yu Ze and Yu Cha, and back then, he could still control the living An Ze.

These are all obvious things that are obvious and cannot be really verified for Yun Yeyao and Liuqiao Pu now, unless there is another person like the kitchen mother-in-law, who lived before the fire 15 years ago, comes forward to testify, and can further get clues.

After the cook's mother-in-law's words ended, everyone fell into silence again, probably waiting for Yun Yeyao's next move, and no one wanted to be the first to urge Mr. Actor. Yan Muheng stood up at this time, he began to walk around the room, and checked, strangely, Grandpa Liu and Yun Yeyao did not stop him.

After Liu Qiaopu was silent for a moment, he asked, "Xiao Yao, do you think Manman will wait for us to leave and sneak out of the small bathroom?" ”

"Unlikely, because the walls of the stairwell are closed, where would Weinman hide to avoid our sight? I went back to see that there was no one hiding in the stairwell. The only hole in the wall was so small, she couldn't have gotten into the next room through it! Grandpa Liu, don't you think the matter of Wen Manman is a little similar to the horror? ”

Grandma Tang was also in a hurry, and she and Yaya were alone, holding her little feet into her arms and covering them for her. The other two men were in a slightly better condition, wrapped in blankets like pandas, and Yu Qia also quickly brought hot boiling water from the kitchen, looking at him, he seemed to be very familiar with the situation in this house.

At this time, the grocery store owner had already left, thinking about the direction of Ms. Wen's restaurant. Because I'm worried about my wife, the boss has left before they come back, and now it is estimated that they should also arrive at the restaurant. The owner was not injured, plus he recovered a little strength in the main house, so it was no big problem to go back to the restaurant.

This is the second rescue in the snow, but this one is not as smooth as the first one, and if Sissy dies, she may have hidden secrets that may be buried forever. Because every child here, every child who is linked to 15 years ago is an independent individual, has a history of their own, and everyone doesn't know what the other's experience is. Therefore, once one of them dies, unless an informed person or a loved one can be found, otherwise, it means that the child's experience is buried forever.

Of course, we don't want this to happen, and we don't want anyone to die miserably, we hope that God can take care of Xixi and let her see clearly who is the person who really loves her? Let her stop doing stupid things and put her own and other people's lives at risk.

——

I don't know how long later, the white dream began to linger in the little girl's mind again, this time, the person in the dream came closer to her, and no longer so sad and imitating, but stretched out his hands, wanting to hug her and kiss her.

Cissy instinctively rejected the man, and stepped back, her guard still hanging out in her heart, which was much more relaxed than it had been before.

Seeing Sissy shaking his head in refusal, the man lowered his head, and his arm fell down with his gaze, as if he was depressed again because of Sissy's refusal.

The words in the dream and the words in reality overlapped, and a conversation between the two began:

'I don't need you, please leave me, you never loved me, I really don't need you anymore. ’

"No, Sissy, I know I was wrong before, I shouldn't have just wanted to spend your money, I ...... Can you please forgive me? Let's start over, I really love you, Sissy! The man's impatient voice sounded in Sissy's ears, but the voice fell into Sissy's ears in the white dream, and it became a different taste.

The object of the two little girls' questioning was the old criminal policeman, while Lu Haoyu was directly questioning Yan Muheng.

Yan Muheng didn't react, he continued to move around the room, his back to everyone. "He's someone who knows this home, and we need him to help us find the traces of the hostess here." ”

"But looking for the traces left by the hostess here, isn't it more appropriate for Sister Wang and her mother-in-law to do so? Could it be that Mr. Yan is also a family member in the treacherous house? Qin Sen asked, Lian Fan diagonally opposite him also looked incredulous.

"Xiao Heng is indeed a person who has lived here, but he can't be regarded as a family here." Yun Yeyao said a sentence that was both copied and copied, and then asked: "Mother-in-law, just now you admitted that your son's name is Yu Heng, so do you think Yan Muheng is similar to him?" ”

"No, Mr. Yan can't be my son, his height, body shape, and appearance are not right." The cook's mother-in-law turned her head and looked at Yan Muheng's back repeatedly, and shook her head again in denial.

Yun Yeyao didn't refute, but also looked at Yan Muheng and said, "Mother-in-law, I believe what you said, Yan Muheng here can't be less than." So, is it possible that he is Xiao Heng? ”

"Xiao Heng?" Mother-in-law's face instantly became ugly, she didn't understand what Yun Yeyao meant? I thought hard for a while before I said, "Mr. Yun, are you trying to say that I deliberately concealed a person in this house?" ”

"Mother-in-law, please don't misunderstand, first of all, I want to state that I and Grandpa Liu agreed with what you just said in the past, according to the content of the books I saw before, Mr. Housekeeper may indeed be a renovation worker who stayed for you in the past. We think that before Mr. Steward's arrival, in fact, everything in the Spiegel House is managed by you and Anze. ”

Yun Yeyao's words made the cook's mother-in-law even more confused, she said: "I have managed the house, I have already said it. At that time, I was just a superficial manager, and in fact, everything had to be arranged by An Ze, but Mr. Yun, if you want to say that An Ze and I are managing together, this sentence is not wrong. ”

"But when do you talk about the content of the book? Could it be the books in the study? Impossible! Those are all books that Anze brought in from outside, how can it be that our family's past is written on them? ”

"I don't even know the answers to these questions now! Only a few guesses can be made grudgingly. But one thing is certain, Anqian may be the same as Xiao Heng, she is a person who has lived here, but she is not a member of this family, and your mother-in-law, Shu Xue and Wen Manman, don't you think your fate is the same? ”

"Some of you have died, and the past will be buried forever. Some people are still alive, but there is no way to escape. Is it because of possessions or dreams, or is it something else? In short, please wait a little longer, not only so that we can find the truth of the case, but also so that you can get the answers you want. ”

Before Mr. Actor's words fell, Yan Muheng walked back to his side, and at this moment, more than ten minutes had passed since Yan Muheng stood up and started to search the room. Yan Muheng also took something in his hand and put it behind Yun Yeyao, everyone wanted to poke their heads out to see, but unfortunately, Yan Muheng had already taken precautions, and quickly withdrew his hand, and the hand he pulled back was empty and there was nothing.

"What are you holding?" Lu Haoyu couldn't help but ask, his and Qin Sen's expressions were very nervous.

"I found traces of the hostess left here, and what she was holding just now is evidence." Yan Muheng replied calmly, his indifference only touched the nerves of others even more. At this time, not only Qin Sen and Lu Haoyu, but even Tao Muqing, Xia Tomato and Lian Fan also stood up together, and leaned close to the place where Yun Yeyao and Yan Muheng were.

Unlike the young men, none of the three elders stood up, and the cook lowered her head and coughed a few times, and said, "Anqian is indeed dead, I can prove it, what is the use of you looking for evidence of his death now?" He left this world of his own free will, not by murder. ”

Sister Wang patted the cook on the back, and she looked in the direction of several young people, probably waiting, wanting to see how things would develop.

Liu Qiaopu continued to let Yan Muheng's behavior go, but his eyes looked at everyone present sharply, his eyes did not focus on the nervous faces of these people, but on the movements of these people, in case there were accomplices of the murderer among them, and they would make some small actions that Yun Ye had no time to take care of.

The role of Liu Qiao Pu here now is to help Yun Yeyao and monitor the people who are together. Therefore, unless forced to do so, the old man will not take any additional action.

Wait, maybe that middle-aged woman can't sleep today, she's staying late downstairs, and it's normal for her to be nervous about doing such a big thing tomorrow. The man comforts himself and forces himself to stay where he is, he must be calm in everything he does, and if he panics, it will go wrong, and he will never allow it to happen.

Counting the minutes minute by minute, the man's vision of the rock roof became more and more blurred, but there was still no familiar footsteps in his ears. It wasn't until after 10 o'clock in the evening that the man really started to get anxious. He stepped out of his hiding place, glanced at the sack in the corner, which was made more terrifying by the darkness, and headed towards the basement.

He couldn't wait any longer, tonight, he had to go and see the little girl, some people died, others had to be taken with him, in the man's mind, it was inevitable, otherwise, it would affect his whole plan, and maybe his future.

There was no longer a need for the Spiegel House to maintain that isolation until the other children with dual personalities grew up. As he walked briskly to the basement, he thought, 'Even if she doesn't come tonight, I'll have to find a way to get into the side study, and only by walking from the periphery will I have a chance to climb the bell tower and enter the secret passage.'

——

In April 1999, on the third floor of the main house

It was already past 8 o'clock in the evening, and the attentive young maid silently accompanied Xiao An, she had just coaxed Xiao An to sleep, this little girl had already experienced too much suffering, and the maid wanted to tell her that her only relative had disappeared, but she hesitated for a long time and did not say anything.

The young maid put her arm around Ann in one hand, and on her other hand, clutched a photograph of two girls snuggled up to each other, one of them four or five years old, smiling brightly, and the other not yet learned to walk, but had learned how to be happy.

The maid raised her hand and wiped her eyes with her sleeve, and before she knew it, it had been wet for a long time, but the wetness never fell, not because the maid no longer felt sad, but because he was in deep thought, and the bits and pieces of that thought made her sadness stop for a while.

I should probably be working somewhere for him, and someday, all three of them will be miserable. The maid thought and frowned, for she felt a sudden cramping pain in her abdomen, which was caused by not eating, and she had been trying to comfort Xiao Ann all afternoon.

He asked, "Are you okay?" How did you just get in? ”

Under the shadows, a woman's voice answered him, "Does that bother me?" Don't you know that I have the blood of a 'youkai'? And it's a 'soft body demon'! ”

"What are you kidding?" The man scolded softly: "I almost lost my life!" Okay, you quickly put on the prepared clothes, which were found with great difficulty, and then go out with me, the people outside should have already gone away. ”

Hearing the man mention the person who had just left, the woman was really scared, she became serious, and asked the man, "Do you think I can do it?" ”

"I don't know! Anyway, he said that if he can, he must be able to do it, isn't my grandfather also there? Grandpa will definitely help you, he is the best at helping others. ”

"But I think your grandfather is like an old-fashioned person, not kind at all, and I remember when I begged him to let me help you, he scolded me." The woman's words sounded a little annoying, but in fact, she said it because she was timid.

This sentence angered the man who was standing, and he scolded again: "My grandfather, he is thinking about your life, you say, can he let an innocent person participate in such a dangerous murder?" ”

"Don't be angry, I'm just telling the truth, and I didn't say your grandfather is bad! Okay, I'm wrong, I'll listen to you what to do now, can't I? ”

"That's pretty much it, let's go! Don't let - wait. The man pulled the woman out of the shadows and led her lightly out the door.

The woman was still asking to herself, "-Are you back upstairs?" Do you want the two of us to show up together in the first room they pass by? ”

"No, you have to follow me downstairs later, let's go to the group of people instead of you, on the third floor, grandpa they need at least two stories, one is yours and one is mother-in-law."

"But my story was told last night!" The woman was still confused.

At this time, the two of them had already walked to the door of the room, the man protected the woman with his hand, and put his head out of the door to look around, although the light was dim, it did not affect the man to confirm the situation outside the door.

"No one, let's get out quickly!"

"You haven't answered my question yet?" The woman said.

"Aren't you very smart from the beginning to now, and you can also help grandpa analyze the problem of the door, and your acting skills just now are also very good, you don't know that grandpa wants to help you find your mother!"